THE CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES)

With thanks to Eddie Wallace, ex SGT from 1959 to disbandment in 1968

BELT COLOURS - Douglas Tartan

OTHER INFORMATION

• I still have my stable belt from when I was in the regiment, yes we did wear stable belts usually in the tropics like in Aden.

  The SNCOs wore them, also the officers, I still have mine, two in fact, they were worn with the buckle under the left arm not in the front as an ordinary belt would be worn. One has double buckle and one single although I think we wore the double buckle.

  With thanks to Eddie Wallace,

• To our knowledge, the Cameronians did not wear stable belts, but if they did, the tartan would have been Douglas Tartan.

  With Thanks to Kerry Patterson, Assistant Museums Officer, South Lanarkshire Council, 116 Cadzow Street, Hamilton, ML3 6HP

• The Cameronians had a stable belt, and it is a Douglas Tartan, I have one in my possession which was given to me by an ex-Cameronian

  With thanks to Graham Lewcock

• During a tour of Northern Ireland in the late 1970s I was given a Cameronians Stable Belt (Douglas tartan and looking as if it was made up by a regimental tailor - from memory it had single, black leather chape and buckle, which was unusual) by an ex member of the regiment who had married and settled in the province having finished his time in another Scottish regiment.

  With thanks to Bob Bennett

  The Cameronians as such did not wear stable belts. However, the officers were known to wear them when in Aden.

  With thanks to David Thompson